Japan

Pray for Karis! ヒックス・カリス | Karis Hicksインターン | MUSTARD SEED クリスチャン教会 福岡 Praises Traveling mercies – After 3 flights and 29 hours of travel, I am safely in Fukuoka, praise the Lord! He was so kind to smooth out all of the travel details along the way, and a huge praise… I

The maze of cobblestone paths that winds beneath Tenjin has an old European feel by design. Paper lanterns give way to stained glass lamps and kawaii illustrations to Italian-style murals that serve as both art and landmarks. Even so, it’s disorienting in this country that’s less than 1% Christian to

by Sarah Kladler At the beginning of our trip, while exploring Tokyo, we visited the Shinjuku National Gardens. The gardens encompass a wide variety of flowers and trees, including the largest maples and cherry trees I have personally ever seen. The gardens originated as a feudal lord’s personal garden during

by Karis Hicks “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5 Only three full days have passed since Sarah and I landed to join the rest of the team, three days of observing the beauty and calmly collected order of life in Japan.

There is no sign for the little church plant in Fukuoka. From the outside, the eight-story building boasts colorful logos for popular department stores, but the seed of spiritual life is discretely located in a rented space on the top floor. In this modest environment, however, the smallest of the

As newspapers repeatedly noted after World War I, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” As a team, we have difficulty comprehending numbers like “millions” of lost Japanese. Our zeal for reaching the lost deadlocks with our finite brains and overprotective psyches.